[Pollinator] Fwd: Bee Scientist Loses Everything to Fire

[Laurie Adams]

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From: Kathy Keatley Garvey <kathykeatleygarvey at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Aug 28, 2020 at 3:00 PM
Subject: Bee Scientist Loses Everything to Fire
To: Laurie Adams <LDA at pollinator.org>


Hi, Laurie,
Can you post on Pollinator Partnership? This is so tragic.

Bee Scientist Loses Everything to Fast-Moving Wildfire

It's heartbreaking. Beyond heartbreaking.

Caroline Yelle, 28, owner of Pope Canyon Queens
<https://www.facebook.com/popecanyonqueens/> (PCQ) at 8307 Quail Canyon
Road Quail Canyon Road, Vacaville, Calif.,  her business when the
lightning-sparked Hennessey Fire, part of the LNU Lightning Complex Fire,
swept through rural Vacaville on Aug. 19 from Napa County.

The raging wall of flame "destroyed everything."

She has nothing left but hope.

Pope Valley Queens is one of the nation's few women-owned queen bee breeder
businesses. Yelle breeds bees for "a better tomorrow" and now "tomorrow"
and "better" are almost singed from her vocabulary.

She lost 500 hives.

Her mentor, best friend and business partner Rick Schubert (who
recently sold his business, Bee Happy Apiary
<http://www.beehappyapiary.com/>, Vacaville), lost everything in the
Hennessey Fire, including his newly remodeled home at 8307 Quail Canyon
Road--and where the PCQ office was.

See more on Bug Squad blog at
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-- 
Kathy Keatley Garvey
UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology
kegarvey at ucdavis.edu
Or
kathykeatleygarvey at gmail.com
Website: http://entomology.ucdavis.edu/
Department News:  http://ucanr.edu/blogs/entomology/
Bug Squad blog: http://ucanr.edu/blogs/bugsquad/index.cfm
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